Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-26 hours ago[deleted]message-squaremessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down12file-text
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minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·11 hours agoI don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 hours agoHonestly. It’s not hard to know both.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoI’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoBritain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoAnd yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 hours agoYeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
Honestly. It’s not hard to know both.
I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
Si verdad.
Britain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
And yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
Yeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?